Coastline Paradox

The scale of the landscapes are diffuse; sometimes may seem a gigantic dune or just a small pile of sand also it could be an island or a little rock in the sea… The scale depends on the comparison with other structures or objects . Isolated, this landscapes could be monumental or microscopic.

The series plays with »The coastline paradox» which is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fact that a coastline typically has a fractal dimension. Although the «paradox of length» was previously noted by Hugo Steinhaus, the first systematic study of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson and it was expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot.

On the left side (blue), the images were made with 3D modelling technique in Blender (2023) and on the right side (red) from a combination of real photographs shot in The Faroe Islands 2019.